Letter to the Editor: US leaders ‘pounding the drums of war’

Published 5:59 pm, Thursday, August 10, 2017

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Our leaders seem to be pounding the drums of war for another bloody and expensive regime change on the other side of the earth in North Korea. Or perhaps our newest “sanctions” will teach them a lesson. Maybe Kim Jong-un will have to go to bed hungry if we squeeze them financially. Isn’t that how sanctions work? The leaders suffer and the innocent population goes unaffected. No?

In the New Haven Register’s Aug. 7 op-ed, Ted Cruz says we should “outpace the North Korea threat ... not merely keep up with it.” Is he telling us that a country that spends less that $10 billion annually is a threat to the U.S. who spends over $680 billion annually, not counting all the secret operations? If this is true then we better ask for some answers from the Pentagon about how they are spending our money.